Guwahati Sept 3: As monsoon floods and marooned villages flash on our TV screens and the front pages of the media, the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research, (C-NES) has been quietly providing health services to communities on the river islands of the Brahmaputra in Assam, reaching thousands who do not have access…
To mark the International Year of Sanitation (IYS) and as a run up to SACOSAN III the Water and Sanitation Program – South Asia (WSP-SA) is pleased to announce the “Media Partnership Program” for regional media professionals (in print, electronic, audio and audiovisual media) who have been writing/producing/documenting water, sanitation, hygiene and health related stories…
Editorial A Vision and the Reality On July 3, 2008, at a packed hall in Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched Vision 2020, a compendium of various strategies, proposals and action plans for improving the condition of the NE Region and its people. The document has integrated work done by the National…
Dear Friend: RIS is organizing a Regional Conference on Deepening South Asian Economic Integration in collaboration with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and the SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry on 24 July 2008 at the FICCI Conference Hall. The objective of the Conference is to have a discussion on the…
From: <FriendsofAssamNE@yahoogroups.com> Date: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:52 PM Subject: [FriendsofAssamNE] Digest Number 824 To: FriendsofAssamNE@yahoogroups.com Congrats to Sanjoy Hazarika on another initiative............ the Xihus (river dolphins) are being presented in Germany. Some of us got a chance to see this documentary in Washington DC last year Sept... (http://www.c-nes.org/events/59.html) screened at the World Resource…
The dolphins came right up to me as I entered the water. They began to swim around me, kiss me and let me touch them. As I whistled gleefully, one came near me and splashed water all over me. It gently rose out of the water, rested his head on my shoulder and touched his…
Coinciding with the World Environment Day (June 5), C-NES organized a two day State Children’s Summit with the theme - “Save the river dolphin,” at Guwahati’s Shilpagram. For two days Guwahati played host to nearly 300 school children from across the state - more than half coming from remote villages. The idea behind organizing this…
Guwahati, June 5: Marking the World Environment Day, the State Chief Minister Shri Tarun Gogoi today announced that the highly endangered river dolphin, locally known as the “Xihu,” would now be the State Aquatic Animal. Earlier today, Shri Rokibul Hussain, Minister for Forest, flagged off a colorful march of about 300 children dressed in caps…